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Welcome to the first post in a series dedicated to downloading and installing Microsoft SQL Server. In this article we’ll be looking at the Microsoft SQL Server downloads page (click here for the link) where we’ll take a look at

Many organisations have mission critical databases without having dedicated resource to ensure instances are set up to optimal settings, be consistent and are fully recoverable. Members of other teams often take over database administration responsibilities but this can mean that

Throughout 2019 David will be presenting our Guillotines, Sat-Nav and the Query optimiser at various user groups, you can check this link for the current dates we have scheduled. The session is useful for anyone who queries SQL Server and

I’ve been using the word “effective” a lot lately in training sessions to differentiate between a specific task being done well and the same task done exceptionally well. There’s many ways how I can highlight this type of approach in SQL Server

Automation is a big deal right now and whilst an important part of the relatively new DevOps culture it’s actually been an integral part of many, if not all IT roles for a long long time. Automation done well provides

The latest version of SQL Server Management Studio, version 17.6 has just been released. You can download the tool, completely free from the following link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssms/download-sql-server-management-studio-ssms Previous releases of the tool have been very security orientated with the introduction of

Five reasons to run SQL Server 2016 on Windows 2016. Fifth post in a very useful series from the SQL Server Blog; Reason #5 Consistent data environment across hybrid cloud environments. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2017/05/15/five-reasons-to-run-sql-server-2016-on-windows-server-2016-no-5-consistent-data-environment-across-hybrid-cloud-environments/

The new Data Science Workloads in Visual Studio 2017 will have built-in support for R and Python. Previous versions of VS only supported these languages by add-ins, these are not required in the new version. Read more about the news

Visual Studio 2017 is released today and the installer features a rather interesting addition; Redgates very own Data Tools meaning the ReadyRoll, SQL Prompt and SQL Search products are available for VS Enterprise subscribers!! You can read more about the announcement by following